My review of Sadiqa de Meijer’s In the Field is up at The Miramichi Reader.

 At the recent 2025 Living Streets Aotearoa Walking Summit, speaker Julie Woods talked about her walking journey, which eventually led her to walking every street in Dunedin. Julie is a professional speaker, Global Ambassador for Blind Low Vision NZ, a...

The call for papers for Sacred Journeys 13th Global Conference is out. Abstracts for papers on any aspect of pilgrimage are due 15 February 2026, although you don’t have to present a paper to participate. You might just be interested in pilgrimage–perhaps as a practitioner, someone who has travelled to places that are sacred to … Continue reading Sacred Journeys 13th Global Conference, Université Laval University, Quebec City, Canada, July 7-10, 2026 →

Rawz created Forgotten Stories Of Oxford, a Spoken Word collection which forms a walking tour of central Oxford, offering a glimpse behind the facade of a city whose name is synonymous with global elitism. This work is one of the shortlisted pieces for the Sound Walk September Awards 2025. Below, Rawz discusses the piece, and what lead to its

For our second walk together-apart, Kristina Rothstein and I walked in Tokyo, Japan and Edinburgh, Scotland respectively. 2nd October 2025. The agreed location was the city, and coordinated stops were scheduled for the beginning, middle and end. Kristina’s walk The walk started at 7pm Tokyo time, on the last night of my three and half … Continue reading Walking in Pairs 2 -Tokyo / Edinburgh

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Next week, Saturday November 29, I’m hosting a Dérive app workshop in Yogyakarta, together with Kunci and Jalan Gembira. You can still sign up, check the announcement for the signup link. In preparation, we kicked off with an online presentation, to ease participants into concepts surrounding the dérive, specifically its origin with the Situationists, and …

John Bechtold and his co-creator Alli Ross created Where I End & You Begin, immersive theater that sends two participants on a tandem journey across MASS MoCA’s galleries and campus in North Adams, Massachusetts. This work is one of the shortlisted pieces for the Sound Walk September Awards 2025. Below, John discusses the work. Developed in a multi-year artist

CHICAGO — Life moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop and look at “The Art of Ferris Bueller,” you could miss it. On Nov. 22, Kelli Marshall will take guests Source: Visit the same artwork as Ferris Bueller on his day off at ‘The Art of Ferris Bueller’ walking tour | Entertainment News | recorderonline.com

Manar Abu Dhabi opened to the public on Friday with 22 artworks using lasers, mirrors, steel, glass and fibre optics Source: Manar Abu Dhabi lights up the desert: Free entry, family fun with night walks through laser arches | Khaleej Times

In Slovakia’s Kysihýbel Arboretum, rare trees frame contemporary sculptures in a quiet walk where art and nature meet. Source: Kysihýbel Arboretum: A forest art walk in Banská Štiavnica, Slovakia – The Slovak Spectator

Free after-dark walking and running club launches in Oxford to help women feel safe and stay active in winter. Source: After-dark walking and running club for women in Oxford | Oxford Mail

Free after-dark walking and running club launches in Oxford to help women feel safe and stay active in winter. Source: After-dark walking and running club for women in Oxford | Oxford Mail

Fred Adam and Geert Vermeire host this special Confluence to announce the launch of an online course on walking art and an interactive map to strengthen engagement with walking artists and collectives...

Burn all the maps to you for a better life Source: Map, Demap and Reroute | Humans

The Railway Curiosity Shop of Wonder in John Street, Stroud Alec is always busy in his shop, Mending clocks and repairing engines, Walking past trucks and carriages and bottles and level crossings – But when sunlight flashed through the rainswept...

BETWEEN THE LINES BY RICHARD DRY          I grew up in the 1970s in Stonehouse, just off Oldends Lane on the edge of the Park Estate, smack-bang in the middle between two main railway lines. Looking north from my bedroom window, the Stroud to Glouceste...

Dan Carins A few weeks after moving from Birmingham to Knighton in Powys, my son and I walked from the town to neighbouring Presteigne and back along the Offa’s Dyke Path. In the mist and drizzle of the morning, the ancient earthwork guided our steps as we crossed fields and old drovers’ lanes as it […]

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Jeremy Knowles was part of the team that created And let no one be forgotten!, a sound walk centred on three houses in Berlin, which stand as silent witnesses to the shifting tides of history. This work is one of the shortlisted pieces for the Sound Walk September Awards 2025. Below, Jeremy discusses the piece. When I first came

We are delighted to announce the short listed entries in our annual Write About Walking writing competition that this year, had a theme of “Walking In The Dark” in support of the global action “Women walking, the City, at Night“. Fourteen poems and stories from eleven writers were chosen by the judges, and will be

As has become tradition these last few years (2024, 2023, 2022), it is time for a little bit of fun and inspiration for your Christmas shopping, or just happy daydreaming. Previously I’ve focused on some of my favourite gear or little hiking luxuries -...

Are there any books in Palimpsest’s Field Notes series that aren’t worth reading? Some of these short books, their titles all beginning with the preposition On, and all addressing some issue of public interest (or at least interest to me) for a general audience, must be dull or poorly researched or otherwise lacklustre, but I haven’t … Continue reading 52. Ira Wells, On Book Banning →

James Dobbs produced a sound walk, SENDwalk, around Peel Park, in Manchester, with the help of local children. The walk was debuted at the Spirit of Little Hulton festival. This work is one of the shortlisted pieces for the Sound Walk September Awards 2025. Below, James discusses his work. SENDwalk began with a deceptively simple question: “How can I